Word: nbc
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...this cluster of contradictions came the 'final' solution: all stations paid AT & T a license fee for use of "telegraphic" wires. AT & T sold its stations, receiving the right to manufacture radio equipment on a limited basis, while RCA, General Electric and Westinghouse formed the NBC radio system, which operated two networks and dominated its field for years. By these actions, antitrust laws were circumvented; networks being new entities altogether, the danger of eventual broadcast monopoly was ignored...
...calling for identification of product contents during commercial breaks was killed because of the fear of lost advertising revenue. Radio-style advertising became recognized as a determinant of public opinion; when Upton Sinclair threatened to ride into the California governorship with his wealth-sharing EPIC plan, Albert Lasker, first NBC advertising counsel, was called to Hollywood to aid in his defeat. It was no surprise, then, that the Wagner-Hatfield proposal, which called for guaranteed educational control of 25 per cent of the radio spectrum, received little support when it came up before the Roosevelt-formed Federal Communications Commission (which...
...same as a manufacturer's. When RCA developed a color set it claimed compatible with its black-and-white TV sets, it was quickly accepted over a CBS color method which was purportedly superior. In October of 1947, Charles Denny, who had presided over the pro-RCA hearings, became NBC vice-president and general counsel...
Television did not even have radio's early period of individual adventure. It was born full-grown from the head of NBC chief David Sarnoff, with commercial radio's soiled silver spoon firmly embedded in its mouth. It didn't take long to develop I Love Lucy, My Little Margie, and Ed Sullivan's Talk of the Town, In various facsimilies, they're still being aired...
Chancellor won a reputation among his NBC colleagues as an "iron man" for talking 90 minutes nonstop on camera in November 1960 while he and the rest of the national press waited for John Kennedy to arrive at the Hyannis armory to make the presidential-election victory statement. During the 1964 Republican Convention, he was hustled bodily off the floor by a sergeant at arms attempting to clear the aisles. "It's awfully hard to remain dignified at a time like this," Chancellor ad-libbed. As he faded from the screen, he solemnly intoned: "This is John Chancellor, somewhere...